April 19, 2006
Dear colleagues...My experience with the so called "free" educational games has been a spyware induced computer which did cost much labor of my time to clean and search for the virus and program that was locking up the computers. Such examples include the "Lemonade Stand" online downloaded for free by the marketing teacher in my lab. It took 2 weeks for me to clean all the mess off 30 computers! Frustrating in the least. Have any of you had the same experience with the "free" downloadable educational games? Does any of your districts have restrictions for free downloadables? Just curious...
posted by Erin "Brooke" Elliott @ 9:49 PM
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How frustrating... I haven't had these problems and I have used a free download called bridgebuilder from West Pointe.
The school district I use to work for did have very high security and used a program called Deep Freeze to prevent students (and teachers) from loading items. All software had to be approved by the district before it was allowed to be loaded on the computer. The problem is that many teachers feel they are being treated as "babies" and that they cannot make decisions on what software they use without having to go through a long permission process.
This problem is not unique to school districts. My brother is always complaining about what people at the business he works for keeps putting on their computers. There are 60 employees where he works and he is in charge of keeping their computers system up and running.
The issue is how to allow enough access but not to much.... Is there a solution?
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